In Failure Quotes
Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.
To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.
Failure is not always a bad thing. You just have to be smart while you're in the middle of it. You're in the eye of the tornado of like disappointment to know that it's just a storm and it'll pass.
* We have come this far always believing that justice would somehow prevail. This is the burden, this is the promise, and THIS is why we will not fail.
The only thing wrong with the U.S. economy is the failure of the Republican Party to play Santa Claus.
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.
The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve.
No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it.
I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.
People have committed suicide because of their failure to realize the passions for love , power , fame , revenge . Cases of suicide because of a lack of sexual satisfaction are virtually nonexistent.
I thought my mountain was coming this morning. It was near to speaking when suddenly it shifted, sulked, and returned to smallness. It has eluded me again and sits there, puny and dull. Why?
Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result.
Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural.
If you find it difficult to accept failure then you simply won't get any innovation because employees will be too frightened
On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either.
The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains.
Alas, all too often, the dream turns into a mud puddle. I am left looking at a disaster. What to do! Keep working. I ask the Almighty for help. That frees me.
Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.
All too many churchmen view the undisciplined & amoral products of statist education as evidences of the failure of these schools. On the contrary, they are evidences of their success.
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as does a distinguished success.
Generally speaking, there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.
Be willing to absorb some risk and failures to allow people freedom to express themselves.
Seek advice, but make sure it's from someone who has successfully handled mistakes or adversities.
As long as we work on God's line, He will aid us. When we attempt to work on our own lines, He rebukes us with failure.
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.
I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success.
It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.
I wouldn't have been what you'd call a champion if I had accepted failure when it first came, if I had looked at it and said, 'Well, that's it.'
The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.
It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.
We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.
Talent is a process, not a thing. Failure is not proof of an innate limit but rather is an indication of a skill we haven’t yet developed.